Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>> Sorry, I submitted the last mail accidentally before it was finished.
>>> On 26 January 2010 Pierre MacKay wrote:
>> > On 01/25/2010 10:21 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> > > Reinhard Kotucha<reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Options -> Mule -> select input method -> vietnamese-viqr
> > >>
> > >> I can enter Vietnamese characters on a pure ASCII keyboard (in VIQR)
> > >> conveniently: When I type "Ha` No^.i", I see "H?? N???i" on screen.
> > >>
> > >> Emacs provides an input-method called "cyrillic-serbian". I must
> > >> admit that I don't know how to use it, though.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Thank you so much for the info. I must admit that using Emacs is
> > > against my religion. I use nvi which does support Unicode since 2000
> > > or so but I have never used it. It is probably also obvious that I do
> > > not use Linux. I am an OpenBSD guy.
> > >
> > >
> > Surely there is an emacs distribution for BSD. There certainly was one
> > in pre-Solaris days for Sun Microsystems and also for Vaxen.
>> Of course, but this is obviously a religious problem. I don't want to
> evangelize anybody, I'm not religious in this respect at all. But
> though I bought a book about vi already, I was often too lazy to
> investigate how to do things in vi because I already knew how to do it
> in Emacs. Thus, I can understand that someone who is using vi for
> years doesn't want to switch to another editor.
>> Modern variants of vi are very powerful too. And, as far as I can
> see, some of them support Unicode already. The question is how to
> enter characters not supported by the keyboard.
>> Everybody in Vietnam is using a US keyboard, there are no dedicated
> keyboards for Vietnamese. I've seen that a friend of mine who was
> running a Vietnamese Linux distribution could switch between European
> and Vietnamese within his GUI. I suppose that there is a way to
> customize X11's keyboard interface. The advantage is that all
> programs benefit from it. But please don't ask me for details, I'm
> not familiar with X11 at all.
>
man xmodmap
The thing is that I do not want to change my keyboard layout as English
is my main language of communication. All of my keyboards are U.S.
If I ever go back to live in Serbia I will probably get a keyboard with
Serbian alphabet layout as I had 15 years ago before moving to U.S.
Thanks,
Predrag
P.S. Of course that Emacs and Auctex are ported to all BSDs and
particularly OpenBSD. I personally do not use any editors except
nvi and ex/ed but many people do.
> Regards,
> Reinhard
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